[haiku-development] Re: Vector Icons help...?
- From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:25:33 +0100
On 2009-11-25 at 08:22:01 [+0100], pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 04:40:30PM -0800, I wrote:
> > OK, I'm lost again... (:-/)
> >
> > I sort of assumed that as Icon-O-Matic created rdef files, and rdef
> > byte arrays are used for supplying BeOS-type icon data, that to make
> > the midi_server supply a vector icon, all I had to do was put the array
> > from the rdef file into the message that it places in the endpoint
> > (without the bitmap creation step) and use BIconUtils::GetVectorIcon()
> > on that data at the other end to get a bitmap. However, GetVectorIcon
> > just tells me that the data should be a "flat icon"! I can find
> > nothing about converting rdef into flat icon...
>
> And now I'm even more baffled... I just looked at Philippe's new mods to
> midi_server, and he does almost *exactly* what I tried, except that he is
> using GetVectorIcon locally (on the same rdef data), and apparently it
> works just as I thought it would! (He puts the raw data into the
> message, too, just as I was, but it isn't actually used by anyone else
> yet.)
>
> I suppose I did something stupid, but I checked that what I was receiving
> in the message appeared to be correct. I'll reinvestigate tomorrow.
>
> (BTW, GetVectorIcon didn't actually say what I reported above -- it gave
> two error messages [that I don't have handy) which seemed to indicate
> -- with looking at the IconUtils source -- that it needed a flattened
> message.)
Hm. There is a Icon-O-Matic "native" document format, which is stored as
flattened BMessage. However, this is not what the BIconUtils want. They
want the "flat" HVIF icon data. Icon-O-Matic supports exporting that in
various forms, but it's always the same data. I.e. "Source Code" writes the
same data as "RDef" does, just with different syntax. So I am not sure what
you did exactly, but if you exported RDef, I presume you put this in the
application resources and load it like Philippe did in his recent commit.
If you used the export Source Code method, then you just pass the C array
to BIconUtils. If in doubt, just post your code snippet here. :-)
Best regards,
-Stephan
Other related posts:
